Now all they have to do is convince all the hipsters in Williamsburg and Wicker Park and Silver Lake that cabinet TVs and VCRs are cool because they're ironically retro. After getting them all to drink PBR, this should be a snap.

Hey no kidding, these things fit on top of the wood-grained multi-purpose table in the efficiency apartment dining room/living room/kitchen/study. So convenient when there are two students sharing rent, too.

I tell my grandkids every year we gather for the holidays how we used to sit around and watch moving pictures on these box-like things, and no kidding, touching on the screen there did absolutely nothing but leave big fat fingerprints! Them sure was the days!

All kidding aside, one of the first gadgets i bought as a teenager and one i saved money for at the time was a vcr that was close to 60 bucks........ yep.. they were THAT expensive.. it was around 1996 or so lol

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